Darkpriest

I've seen, 2nd game in group stages vs Fnatic

Ive seen one luna game in the group stage but yeah that game could go either way. I was so sad that two great teams had to meet in the UB, but then again this TI has the best overall level of skill and basically anyone can take games of anyone what group stage has shown. Even though there are still favorites, they are not invincible like for example Alliance was during TI3, LGD during TI2 groups or even dominant group performance by EG during TI4. The top dogs this year are still top dogs but they collected more than a few punches along the way and there were very few stomps.

it is, but it seems that doping found its way to esports as well, hence examples from other sports can be applied here too... I mean some of these guys train in special houses, isolated, for 11-12h a day, then analyze replays, etc.

Dream on my friend. Imagine that.she could mind-bang you. It is all you need.

Some problems cannot be resolved by a gun fire in texas... https://ca.news.yahoo.com/texas-man-shoots-armadillo-gets-hit-face-bullet-214656503.html

10 billion delicious cows, lions would agree. 10 billion cows... now... how many burgers would that be?

So i other words you would like to see how medicine of the.most advanced country wins in all competitions? I am sure that in 20-30 years we will start seeing some genetic tinkering so we can wait till then. For now I'd rather have all forms of competitions be clean and based on proper nutrition and training regime alone (+ talent)

NANI?!

well, all the assets went to 101 generic MMO landscapes with MMO spawn points of random mobs

And mods to make it fairly fun to actually play rather than tediously mediocre. Its a shame they took such a dive after Empire (or Shogun 2 some would argue), they seem very incompetent with this newer engine. TBH I wonder how modders will tackle this title without the official mod support. There are so many new skeletons + there will be aerial units and spells... That reminds me that I should DL mod for MW2 :D

until they finally optimize it after 10 patches

Blood and Gore DLC around a month after launch, as always... CA will never raise their base game rating to "Mature" rating and that is what would happen if it would get shipped in the main game.

I do not recall how it looked,, i guess I will take a look at some lets play vid if available. EDIT: found one: you have a very odd to me perception when it comes to comparing the two battles.... the SOTH one is a small skirmish, while the one in the TW:WH demo shows large armies with a lot of special units and some high level spells in a scripted sequence...

Well, they are not ditching modding, they are simply not creating tools for modding with this game, and it has something to do with GW WH franchise deal... it would be odd that every other game they released supports mods but suddenly they would decide on their own that they will not be supporting modding anymore, right?

well on the "benefit of doubt" side, they said that they are now focusing on cavalry fights, charges and overall impact mechanics, so one can hope it will get better further down the line.

Presentation demo from the E3. It looks much more real to the game than the failed hype Rome 2 video of siege of Carthage, that later backlashed at CA: It looks really awesome, the only thing it misses is the dwarves marching out of the mountain and slaying orcs.

if there is one thing we should know by now is to not trust modern greeks in any form of modern mathematics, especially when it comes to finance...

this is not new. Starcraft 1 Brood War pro players in Korea were caught in a match mixing/betting scandal that got some of them kicked from pro BroodWar permanently. This happened before Starcraft 2 was released and rise of Esports started happening in the western world. Yeah match fixing happened sometimes before but what is new is that players start using various substances which are considered illegal in regular sport. Now how it will get policed is another thing but being aware of the issue is already a first step in the right direction.

i do not know where do you live, but talking about real estate bubble, I am seeing it first hand in Vancouver, BC, Canada - the real estate prices, for what they offer, are hugely overblown, and it has a lot to do with a lot of Chinese capital escaping Mainland China, and 20yrs ago Hong Kong (with possible second wave coming now). I thought that prices in some other areas of the world were high when it came to the previous real estate bubble, which later collapsed with the first crisis several years ago, but what I am seeing now in Vancouver is just mind blowing...

Wanna race? https://youtu.be/dTHWBSluUjU only if you will sit in/on it and drive :D

I have driven a car at 280kmph - 4x4wheel sports car and have a special license. I know what i am talking about. Same with gun contests or even golf. Chess are different as they technically challenge only mind in data processing and foresight ability. In the e-sports you get taxed on body too. It is mostly endurance (play finals in front of live audience for up to 7h in case of some finals), then reaction time and reflexes and last but not least hand-eye coordination and then mind skills like data processing and foresight. It is another form than pure strenght and stamina based sports and i would put it in line of archery, gun shooting, golf hybrid types.of sports. They meet the definition of athletes. It is just hard to imagine because for a lot of people games are relaxing off time activities. BTW, IMO Valve is doing a great job with their documentaries. Last year they released a fairly long video "Free to Play" about the background and how the game became the e-sport, and this year they are releasing various player profiles, so people can actually know more about various struggles and character traits of people behind some team names. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxkyNsoBqOdBCsaYZMgLjqbAMYtz-gUWC

Yea... Notice that all those things labeled "sports" also fall into a category of things called athletics. So called "esports" qualifies as competitive, but not athletics, just like chess. It's no wonder so many people chuckle at the mere mention of it and don't take it seriously. Perhaps if they stopped calling an apple an orange...Where do you classify motor sports then? After all you only drive the car... right? Olympic shooting with pneumatic guns is also not the sport then? You realize that maintaining focus extreme reflexes and high reaction time etc for a long period of time is not something that your average joe burger eating basement dweller can maintain? Sure they are not the most fit people but they do train their bodies in the areas which are most important for them.

I think it's more of a running joke/meme at this point, but they were good and I remember even as a teenager thinking that Half Life 1 was a complete game changer. The quality was very apparent and very well executed, it really is one of the best shooters ever made, if not the best... Not only that, but it basically created modding as we know it today, with many of said mods becoming instant classics in their own fields. Not something to be sniffed at. just to point out - CounterStrike....

As another e-sports event starts - The International 5 - with a prizepool of over 17 million USD, there are also showing up first news of a darker side of every sport. it seems that after one of the most recent big e-sports event, one of the top CS:GO players admitted to using The "Adderal" substance, which is widely banned in regular sports as a doping substance. The message was hinting that is not a singular player or event that this happened. This news forced reaction from major e-sports organizers for future events to set up anti-doping policies. It seems that while all the glory of regular competitions is not yet fully there, the shady and questionable practices to improve own performance is there already, as the prizepools, involvement of various sponsors and viewership increased significantly over the last couple of years.

Ehh I love all Bethesda's games for one reason or another, it's just good to have a moan about the things you keep wishing they'd do Yeah I know how much you love Bethesda games, you have clocked more hours on Skyrim than most ( how much time now? ) I admire your commitment to there games, my point is more to people who are already saying " Fallout 4 sounds like it is going to be terrible game " Somewhere between 800-1000 hours, similar for Oblivion and Fallout 3...too much Yeah there's some prejudging going on. I think if you hated their previous games you're probably gonna hate their new games. I can't possibly imagine what would make you put so many hours into such a game.... I mean.... I really can't find any reason to do it... it has near 0 replay value, main story is weak and the world is not that big, so what are you doing in the game? walk around and kill stuff over and over again?